NOPD sent a notice about the shooting, at the intersection of Orleans Avenue and North Miro Street, just after 2 p.m. Investigators gathered near a dark-colored, older-model Jeep that appeared to have crashed into a wooden fence at the intersection of North Miro and Orleans, an area that was cordoned off with yellow crime scene tape.

Police said a man with a white T-shirt wrapped around his face shot at a 55-year-old man's car while he was driving down N. Miro Street toward St. Phillip Street around 1:43 p.m. The 55-year-old was struck in the back of the head and transported to the hospital via EMS.

Two women near the scene said they had just pulled up in a cab to dine at Dooky Chase's Restaurant, which sits near the spot where the Jeep crashed, when they heard six gunshots to the east of them before seeing the Jeep weaving up North Miro Street, headed in their direction. The Jeep ran into the curb, said the women, then spun and hit a house.

The women, who are visiting New Orleans from Massachusetts, said they saw one person being taken from the scene in an ambulance.

The crime scene extended for three blocks east of Orleans Avenue on North Miro, including a block that borders one side of Phillis Wheatley Community School's campus.

There were 13 yellow evidence markers at the intersection of North Miro and St Philip.

A Housing Authority of New Orleans police vehicle blocked a heavy flow of traffic from continuing down Orleans Avenue at North Galvez Street.

The location where police said Tuesday's shooting occurred is less than three blocks from the site of a double shooting that killed one person Thursday night (Sept. 27). Rashad Washington, 30, was named by the Orleans Parish Coroner as the man who died in that shooting just outside a nightclub.